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AF-1 said:

Without US style military spending, having dozens and dozens navy and aviation bases all over the world, China simply can not be more than a regional power.

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Russia or the USSR spent loads and loads of money on military. Yet thinking about it, I don't think they ever got close to really hurting the US where it hurts. At least China's monetary strategy triggers those Zuckerbergs and other capitalists hard. They hate communism but you know what they hate even more, someone who can play the money game better than them or rather invent a new way that deprives them of a lot of capital.

For sure more theft is on the way. If it happens once, it can happen again, and again, and again. It will only stop when serious consequences hit them

Lethe said:

I just mount the phone on the handlebars and run the video at 144p with screen brightness turned down so it doesn't chew through too much data or battery, using one earbud only. I believe Youtube Premium allows you to play videos in the background or with screen off, and I think there are unofficial apps and workarounds to get the same functionality without that subscription, but I haven't felt the need to go down either path.

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The Brave browser skips ads and let's you watch videos with the screen off.

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there seem to be naval exercise near Hormuz next few days

Overbom said:

For sure more theft is on the way. If it happens once, it can happen again, and again, and again. It will only stop when serious consequences hit them

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017100286784131558

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ugh, i looked trough some of this guy's tweets and he's so sensationalist like look at this:

CHINA JUST SURRENDERED. 48 HOURS. $3 TRILLION GONE. Treasury Secretary Bessent: “China is ready to make a deal.” Translation: Beijing capitulated in 48 hours. The 100% tariff dies November 1st. But China paid a price that will echo for centuries.

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WHAT JUST HAPPENED: October 24: Trump activates economic doomsday … $300B in Chinese exports face extinction. October 26: Bessent emerges from negotiations. October 28: “China is ready.” Two. Days. The second-largest economy on Earth folded faster than a CVS receipt.

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tough i agree with your point, if china doesn't use economic force to uphold these contracts which have been previously negotiated then nothing really stops these countries from not upholding their end of the contract out of fear of US coercion.

in my opinion it should be the US that's should be targeted because they're the ones behind coercion and use of force against china's Latin American and Caribbean partners.

Randomuser said:

Russia or the USSR spent loads and loads of money on military. Yet thinking about it, I don't think they ever got close to really hurting the US where it hurts. At least China's monetary strategy triggers those Zuckerbergs and other capitalists hard. They hate communism but you know what they hate even more, someone who can play the money game better than them or rather invent a new way that deprives them of a lot of capital.

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Well, on Soviet side, Cold war was fought largely by the Soviet Navy, which always was but a small part of military expenditure.
Arguably, the only part of budget over several decades that was consistently well used, and produced outsized effects from investment.

You can really point it to a ¬single person(ASF Gorhskov), who early on got a grasp on what's actually going on, and sold it in an understandable way to political elites(who, ironically, didn't understand anything - but for a while it worked).

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StraightEdge said:

Good

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016747789976555855

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Already, many scam call centres have released their Chinese captives, they can run, they can hide but eventually Chinese justice and retribution will come for them.

Lethe said:

That Australia's political class appears incapable of seriously attending to these matters beyond the presumption of ongoing American supremacy, and that AUKUS is a leading exhibit of this failure of imagination.

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This is because Australiais elites identify more with the globohomo racial Anglo elites than they do to ordinary Australians who need a working relationship with China in order to remain at the current living standard.
At worse, the five eyes have a white Anglo supremacist mandate which should be dismantled as brutally as possible.


you know Chinese trade deals are hurting when the USG loses its cool and tries to create its own UN.

Some1Guy said:

ugh, i looked trough some of this guy's tweets and he's so sensationalist like look at this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1982416833526546604

tough i agree with your point, if china doesn't use economic force to uphold these contracts which have been previously negotiated then nothing really stops these countries from not upholding their end of the contract out of fear of US coercion.

in my opinion it should be the US that's should be targeted because they're the ones behind coercion and use of force against china's Latin American and Caribbean partners.

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I have lost count: ByteDance’s U.S. TikTok arm; the Wingtech–Nexperia unit; Wingtech’s Newport wafer fab; Sinochem and its stake in Pirelli; and now the two port concessions at the Panama Canal held by Hutchison. There has been zero cost imposed from Beijing’s side. It’s a disaster. Every time, it’s just a verbal rebuke from a low-ranking civil servant, Guo Jiankun. Tell Guo to shut up and let someone with real authority actually do something. We don’t need words from a parrot. They have exactly zero meaning.

Overbom said:

For sure more theft is on the way. If it happens once, it can happen again, and again, and again. It will only stop when serious consequences hit them

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017100286784131558

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Forget about the crowing Jai Hind wannabe’s opinions.

If Panama wants to go full banana republic open bandit country, no one can stop them. But the broader economic consequences will be devastating, which is why countries don’t go bandit more often.

Not only is China going to heavily punish them economically and diplomatically, the vast majority of the world will also take note of Panama’s actions and take this new risk into account when deciding on any deals with them. Even Blackrock is going to be pissed Panama took this route, because what’s stopping the next Panama government from doing the exact same thing to their new contract?

And to be honest, Panama picked the worst time possible to pull this stunt. China just cancelled all Venezuelan oil deals after Trump’s supported coup; Trump has just shown that flagging ships in Panama is as useful as using toilet paper since the US has a treaty where they can board Panama flagged ships at will. So China has almost nothing to loose from breaking out the economic sledgehammer on them right now.